In 1800, John Oliver was an impoverished and illiterate subsistence farmer in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland. He and his wife, Mary (neé Munn), had six children. By 1814, Mad King George III, prompted by his son, the Regent, stepped up the Removals, a program to get "failed" Scots peasants out of their native land to be replaced by more industrious Englishmen. There was however a greater geopolitical purpose to the scheme.
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